It's funny that BMW used a Mercedes W123 in the diesel commercial as the smoking clunker, when you find lots of W123 Mercs still running strong in Albania.

Albania is the land of the old Mercedes, btw.

The W123 is probably the most durable car ever produced. When I was a student I was a taxi driver as a night/weekend job. That cab had over 1,1 million km with the same engine. Incredible. It was still running 24/7.

That thing could move for a diesel but the vibrations and shaking (in summer) really WERE NOT popular among my boston-metro college-aged friends lol!

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Originally Posted by Touring

The W123 is probably the most durable car ever produced. When I was a student I was a taxi driver as a night/weekend job. That cab had over 1,1 million km with the same engine. Incredible. It was still running 24/7.

Being a fan of Honda engines, I requested that they consider building for the F1 a 4.5 liter V10 or V12. I asked, I tried to persuade them, but in the end could not convince them to do it, and the McLaren F1 ended up with a BMW engine.